“I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.”
“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.”
“Blindness took away my sight but gave me clarity of vision. It took blindness to teach me the meaning of love and friendship.”
“I opened both eyes. Dread was sitting on my chest as if it were an animal. I mean, dread so real it had physical presence, like a Labrador retriever I could teach tricks to. Here, Dread. Sit, Dread. Roll over, Dread. Play dead, Dread.”
“And of the fact that every vision of the past is a vision of the blind”
“I have stopped painting. I stand in front of the easel, brush in hand, but my mind is blank. It is as if I have been struck by a strange kind of blindness.”